XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: robertbaer@localnet.com   
      
   James Wilkinson Sword wrote:   
   > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 03:59:42 -0000, Robert Baer   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> James Wilkinson Sword wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 03:49:55 -0000, rickman  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> James Wilkinson Sword wrote on 12/11/2017 11:50 AM:   
   >>>>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 04:07:43 -0000, Mary-Jane Rottencrotch   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 2007-01-19 12:13, Peter Fucker wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Is it really true that turning on a microwave with nothing in it   
   >>>>>>> will   
   >>>>>>> break it?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Derp.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It was a sensible question.  This could be done by accident.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I interviewed with a place once that was doing something with testing   
   >>>> microwave ovens.  They ran them all the time with nothing in them.   
   >>>> I had   
   >>>> always read that you should not operate them with nothing to absorb the   
   >>>> energy and mentioned that.  I got a strange look from the guy.   
   >>>> Obviously   
   >>>> the energy that would be absorbed is within the limits of what the   
   >>>> ovens   
   >>>> were designed to get rid of.   
   >>>   
   >>> You'd think there would be something that absorbs microwaves that miss   
   >>> the food.  And you'd think such a thing would have a thermal cutout.   
   >>> Anybody want to try it?   
   >>>   
   >>    IDIOT!   
   >>    ain't nuttin that "absorbs" the energy.   
   >>    Ask how the maggie works with highly mis-matched loads (hi SWR).   
   >   
   > I went for an interview in a place that designed industrial strength   
   > magnetron.  There IS a block to absorb energy.  A microwave oven without   
   > one is VERY badly designed.   
   >   
      Rule of thumb or any commercial (= = volume) item is: for every fifty   
   cent cost to make, selling price must go up by five dollars (cars, toys,   
   etc).   
      Industrial grade magge-powered ovens cost a lot more than the over   
   the counter el-cheapos that the great unwashed buy.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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